(03-10-2022, 08:29 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So, if the VMs 'languages' are correlated to the 'scribes', then some of the differences in the languages are potentially either due to spelling and/or orthography. Is that how things look??
Not really. If we had only two homogeneous Currier "languages" and no "dialects", variant spellings and subjects could maybe account for the large discrepancies, however the situation is much more complex. Many pages show abnormal-looking frequencies of some patterns. On small samples (paragraph and page) only large variations in frequencies are visible (small sample => low statistical significance) so we don't really know what is happening exactly at the page and paragraph level. At the section level we can be much more confident that the differences are not a statistical fluke. Some frequent patterns in some sections are rare or missing in other sections. There is nothing random or natural about, for example, avoiding almost all (EVA regex) "[eolr]o[aysd]" in Q13. The only exceptions are one "lod" on f77r, one "los" on f78v, and maybe "par,ody" on You are not allowed to view links.
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